A coherent career plan is a comprehensive document that relates learning experiences to career goals. Components include personal data, career assessment information, career and educational goals, education plan, work experiences, and evidence of competency attainment. South Dakota's School-to-Work Tech Prep Initiative requires coherent career…

This article discusses marketing as an important tool in getting out the message that really matters about the value of career and technical education. Across the United States, a number of career tech schools are employing marketing strategies to make their communities aware of the benefits of career and technical education. One of these schools,…

Provides details of South Dakota's comprehensive career and life planning system, including programs, resources, tools, and best practices. Describes the foundation of academic-vocational integration and employability competencies. (SK)

This resource book provides several career development activities to accompany the South Dakota "My Career and Life Planning Portfolio," which is appended. The activities are arranged according to the following four folders found within the portfolio jacket: career and education planning; skills employers want; projects/work samples; and…

These materials are for use in the instruction on current occupations existing on the Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Sisseton, Lower Brule, Crow Creek, Flandreau, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Yankton Sioux Indian Reservations in South Dakota. Objectives of the materials are to help learners identify the geographical locations of each of the nine Sioux…

Objectives of the Watertown, South Dakota, exemplary experienced based career education project are to involve the community in the educational process of participants, who will be aided (1) in improving their self-concept, their relationships with others, and their basic skills; (2) in eliminating sex role stereotyping; (3) in understanding job…